[David Stamm]

I just wanted to share some of my favorite photo's of some of my favorite architects from the GA. Sometimes in our discussions we lose sight of the fact that there were humans behind those designs and it's good to have a face to go with the courses. Most of you have probably have seen most of these if not all of them. Please share some of yours if you have some. (That means you Wayne, Philip, and Tommy! I've included some of you 3's favs. )

H.S. Colt




..and another. He's on the far left




George Crump



...and another. Contemplating what's next at PV.




Hugh Wilson




From L to R, Toomey, Valentine, Flynn and Wilson. Great photo



Flynn



Probably my fav of Tillie..



Three of my favorites. Bell, Thomas and AM.



William P "Billy" Bell



George Thomas




...and GT in the field



One of my fav pics. Behr and MacKenzie at TOC.




...Behr in the field.



H Chandler Egan. Wonderful photo



The creator of Pasatiempo, Marion Hollins



Herbert Fowler



Fowler on the field




Jack Neville, the co designer of PB and Bel Air




Douglas Grant, Neville's co design partner.

[Tony_Muldoon]

David great stuff thanks.  Behr looks so modern next to AM.

This is possibly the last ever photo of Colt, in the overcoat front row.

[Phil_the_Author]

David,

Check your email. I sent a few of a very different Tilly! If you could post...

[Mike Sweeney]

Perhaps Ran can start a little fund for our Alive Guy resident architects and buy them a few ties for future pictures in the field.  

[Brian_Ewen]

Archie Simpson

[David Stamm]

Courtesy of Mr Young. Albert Warren Tillinghast,

18 months



3 years

[wsmorrison]

That second photo of a young Tillinghast looks just like Marion Hollins.  She was pretty scary looking, for a woman.  No wonder she could clear the expanse before the 16th at Cypress Point.  That's not a woman; its a man, man

David,

The photo of the fourth figure in the Hugh Wilson, William Flynn and Joe Valentine photo is not Howard Toomey.  The attribution has always been wrong though repeated numerous times.  We have never seen a photo of Howard Toomey.  The gentleman in the photograph is Winthrop Sargent, who served for a time as chairman of the Green Committee at Merion, and was so during the changes made prior to the 1916 Amateur.

[David Stamm]

That second photo of a young Tillinghast looks just like Marion Hollins.  She was pretty scary looking, for a woman.  No wonder she could clear the expanse before the 16th at Cypress Point.  That's not a woman; its a man, man

David,

The photo of the fourth figure in the Hugh Wilson, William Flynn and Joe Valentine photo is not Howard Toomey.  The attribution has always been wrong though repeated numerous times.  We have never seen a photo of Howard Toomey.  The gentleman in the photograph is Winthrop Sargent, who served for a time as chairman of the Green Committee at Merion, and was so during the changes made prior to the 1916 Amateur.

Thanks Wayne. My mistake. As far as Hollins, very funny! I picturing that being said in the best Austin Powers voice!

[TEPaul]

I was going to mention the guy on the left in the Toomey, Valentine, Flynn, Wilson photo was not Toomey but I see Wayne already did.

I too love that photo for a number of interesting reasons. One is that in reading through so many of Hugh Wilson's letters it's pretty clear the guy had a very clever sort off-beat sense of humor that reminded me in text of the way JFK spoke---eg sometimes self-deprecating.

The other reason is if that's not enough similarity to JFK, I think Wilson looks remarkably like a young JFK in that particular photo.

I don't know how many of you guys are aware of this but JFK was not a bad golfer and he had a very good looking swing!    

Bob Crosby found a photo of young Mackenzie the other day in one of the heretofore missing "The Field" magazines from London that I doubt anyone has seen in years.

[wsmorrison]

Tom,  I bet your crack drive couldn't get past that manly Marion Hollins's average effort  

[Mike Nuzzo]

Here is my favorite from the old days....

[TEPaul]

"Tom,  I bet your crack drive couldn't get past that manly Marion Hollins's average effort    "

Wayno:

Even when I played pretty good I did run into some women golfers here and there who could sure get it by me. Marion most definitely would've been one of them, and probably even on her 80% safety attempts.

But don't you go snickering at my shortness. Don't forget, I saw that little slip of an LPGA player at Merion playing from the same tees as you get it by your tee shots a number of times.  

But then again, during a USGA Publinks qualifier I saw a 14 year old Michelle Wie get it by a number of guys who probably thought they good get it out there pretty far!

[Greg McMullin]

Taken at Pinehurst Dec. 1947 - left to right William Bell, Robert White, W.B. Langford, Donald Ross, Robert Harris, Stanley Thompson, William Gordon, Robert Trent Jones Sr., William Diddel and J.B. McGovern.

[Greg McMullin]

Here's another of Stanley Thompson in the field

[Mike_Cirba]

Now I'm really confused.

Why is Tillinghast wearing a dress?    

[Phil_the_Author]

Mike,

You asked, "Why is Tillinghast wearing a dress?"

The year the photo was taken is 1877. It was the norm for both boys and girls 3-4 years of age and younger to wear dresses.

Not to be overly tacky, but conveniences such as washers, dryers and pampers were still a number of years in the future. Keeping little ones derrier's clean was a challengeand their clothing even more so back then.  

[wsmorrison]

Tom,

I must have been injured.  Yeah, that's it.

Phil,

Come on, you know AW wasn't half the man Marion was  

[Phil_the_Author]

Wayne, you're right, Tilly wasn't half the man that Marion was... but then no one in America has ever been even half the man that Duke Wayne was!

[wsmorrison]

Guess which HS footballer is Flynn



Flynn with Hogan and Nelson at Philadelphia Country Club



Sorry for the poor quality.  Flynn and Ross in Boca Raton

[Kyle Harris]

Wayne,

Back row, second from the left...?

[wsmorrison]

yes

[David Stamm]

A few more I like,


AM and Hunter on the 15th at CPC




Perhaps my fav of AM of all. There is something about this photo that really strikes me.

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